The University of Limerick’s Research Strategy 2022-2027, ‘Wisdom for Action’, outlines the need to build a ‘responsive and supportive research ecosystem which attracts and supports talented individuals and groups to excel in their fields’. A […]
Tag: Ann MacPhail
Publication: Aligning Pedagogies of Teacher Education with the Teaching of Social Justice
Research Impact: This chapter explores the identification and construction of a social justice teacher educator identity through a community of learners. It has been suggested that teacher educators develop their knowledge of a pedagogy of […]
Editors’ Choice Award 2023 – ANTONIO CALDERÓN.
The paper titled ‘A figurational viewpoint of the complexity of policy enactment: An opportunity for agonistic dialogue?’, has been selected as the Editors’ Choice Award 2023 ‘The Curriculum Journal’. The editors say: ‘This is a […]
Research Report: Shared Responsibility Across a Shared Island (SRASI): Teaching Social Justice in Initial Teacher Education
Research Impact: The findings of the SRASI project, which explores the experiences of teacher educators and PSTs in the North and South as they engage in social justice education, align with the broader body of […]
Publication: The lived experience of a primary physical education teacher educator engaging in action research: cycling into change
Research impact: This paper presents the lived experience of a practitioner researcher working as a teacher educator engaging in action research with primary pre-service teachers (PSTs). It is hoped that it may serve as a […]
Publication: Identifying school-based teacher educators’ professional learning needs: an international survey
Research Impact: This study provides an international needs analysis of the professional learning needs of this occupational group through a survey of 1680 school-based teacher educators (SBTEs) conducted in 12 countries. While the findings from […]
Publication: Integrated learning experiences in examinable physical education: A co-constructed teaching template
Research Impact: Two teacher educators and two practising physical education teachers, worked together to explore the notion of integrated learning experiences and constructed teaching resources for the teaching of such experiences. The research team constructed […]
Advocating for social justice across teacher education programmes: Ten realities experienced by teacher educators – Allison Campbell and Ann MacPhail.
As was noted in an earlier blog post, https://rb.gy/hjbba colleagues in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) at the University of Limerick and at the Ulster University have secured funding from The […]
Publication: Preparing pre-service physical education teachers as practitioner researchers
Research Impact: The focus for this paper is on considering the perceptions to which a chosen enactment of practitioner research in a Physical Education Teacher Education programme prepares pre-service teachers (PSTs) to understand, appreciate and […]
Publication: Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature
Research Impact: Delivering physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes through online platforms has been proposed as an alternative (or complementary) to traditional in-person modes of learning. Prompted by the shift to online learning during the […]
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